1 bus to Lubbock TX (delivered)

... spending the night at home

Shorter day today, no alarm.

Spent last night at the Sleep Inn in West Des Moines.

Quick breakfast and then we were rolling.

Made it as far as Dows before our 1st stop. Stopped at the rest area. Did get the car up to 30 mpg for a few minutes. And we never paid more than $3 per gallon so half good.

2nd stop was in Forest City to pick up our personal car. Three of the small RV's where often there is 100's. The shipper is starting to stack RV's in the holding lot so there should be a few by the end of the month. We are hoping for a few after Thanksgiving.

We turn in our paperwork and head out. The road from Forest City to the freeway is open again, it has been closed most of the year. Somewhere along there I stopped and picked some milkweed to plant in my garden. We'll see if it works. So far I haven't had any luck with what I have planted.

BB manages to stay ahead of me. I get to the cemetery and have enough time to find one marker before she calls me to get picked up. We had not been paying attention. We had planned on finding work on the way home and changing the rental car info. We ended up having the car for two days and one hour ... and no one there to check the car in, so we will likely get charged the three days on the agreement. We could have easily shaved an hour off this trip and made it a two day rental.

On the way to the airport we had seen food trucks in a parking lot so that is where we headed back to for food. It was about 20 miles backtrack but we like to drive :)

All food was good. Shrimp (for BB,) Philly for me, cheese curds and brownies. Places were out of chicken fried rice and apple crisp brownies. Both said they had 'just ran out,' so if we had decided sooner.

Off now for a couple of days.